Author: Judy Raymond

Culture, Literature, Arts, Trinidad and Tobago

Sir Vidia Naipaul: A knight of celebrations

Sir Vidia Naipaul turns 75 on August 17, but in his homeland of Trinidad the celebrations have already begun. The St Augustine campus of...

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Literature, Travel, British Virgin Islands

Up close and impersonal

Caribbean Dreams: Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands, Michael Wissing, Regine Hodeige (Macmillan Education, ISBN-13: 978-1-405098-73-1,...

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Culture

Blessed are the meek

Brown Face, Big Master by Joyce Gladwell (Macmillan Caribbean, ISBN 0-333-97430-1, 192 pp) The title of Joyce Gladwell’s autobiography...

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Culture

Every man is an island

A Distant Shore by Caryl Phillips (Secker & Warburg, ISBN 0-436-20564-5, 320 pp) When he’s not writing fiction, Caryl Phillips is a...

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Culture, Arts, Trinidad and Tobago

Last-minute mas

Feathers are in vogue for this year’s Carnival, but Richard “Ashraph” Ramsaran isn’t exactly following that trend. Though his band...

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Culture, Literature, People, St. Lucia

Derek Walcott: making poetry from nothing

Many years ago, as the Founder Leader’s motorcade flashed past a rumshop in Georgetown, Wilson Harris – the inscrutable magus of...

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Culture, Theatre and Dance, People, Trinidad and Tobago

Errol Jones: a gentleman and a player

Errol Jones possessed two qualities that are unusual in an actor, said Eunice Alleyne: greatness and humility. Other tributes bore out what...

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Culture, Literature, Reviews

Book Reviews (September/October 2011)

 A walk on the wild side of love Finding herself single in her late thirties, Trinidadian novelist Monique Roffey (The White Woman on a...

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